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050 00 $aQA3$b.W67 1988
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245 04 $aThe World of mathematics :$ba small library of the literature of mathematics from Aʻh-mosé the scribe to Albert Einstein /$cpresented with commentaries and notes by James R. Newman.
260 $aRedmond, Wash. :$bTempus,$c©1988.
300 $a4 volumes (xxx, 2448 pages) :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $a"Foreword by Philip and Phylis Morrison"--Jacket.
500 $aReprint. Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1956.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aVol. 1. General survey -- Historical and biographical -- Arithmetic, numbers, and the art of counting -- Mathematics of space and motion -- v. 2. Mathematics and the physical world -- Mathematics and social science -- The laws of chance -- v. 3. Statistics and the design of experiments -- The supreme art of abstraction: group theory -- Mathematics and infinity -- Mathematical truth and the structure of mathematics -- The mathematical way of thinking -- Mathematics and logic -- The unreasonableness of mathematics -- How to solve it -- The vocabulary of mathematics -- Mathematics as an art -- v. 4. The mathematician -- Mathematical machines: can a machine think? -- Mathematics in warfare -- A mathematical theory of art -- Mathematics of the good -- Mathematics in literature -- Mathematics and music -- Mathematics as a culture clue -- Amusements, puzzles, fancies.
650 0 $aMathematics.
650 2 $aMathematics
650 6 $aMathématiques.
650 7 $aMathematics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01012163
650 7 $aMathématiques$xFondements.$2ram
650 7 $aMathématiciens$xBiographies.$2ram
650 7 $aArithmétique.$2ram
650 7 $aGéométrie.$2ram
650 7 $aStatistique mathématique.$2ram
650 7 $aGroupes, Théorie des.$2ram
650 7 $aLogique symbolique et mathématique.$2ram
650 7 $aMathématiques.$2ram
650 7 $aPhysique mathématique.$2ram
650 7 $aMathématiques économiques.$2ram
650 7 $aProbabilités.$2ram
700 1 $aNewman, James R.$q(James Roy),$d1907-1966.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tWorld of mathematics.$dRedmond, Wash. : Tempus, ©1988$w(OCoLC)698019098
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